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Hayes sees red in Munster nightmare

Leinster 30 Munster 0

FIVE months have passed since Croke Park but for Munster, this must have felt like a continuation of the same nightmare. This time, however, their humiliation was complete, summed up by the big fat zero on their side of the scoreline and the fact that they finished with just 13 men on the pitch.

Leinster won all of the key individual battles, with Jonathan Sexton out-playing an off-colour Ronan O'Gara and kicking six from six, Eoin Reddan proving a point against two scrum-halves rated above him, and so on. But the winners' dominace was blanket-like. They out-defended Munster, they out-scrummed them, they out-kicked them and they out-jumped them, with Denis Fogarty coughing up four lineouts.

What's more, having struggled to score tries so far this season, they produced three tries for No's 12, 13 and 14, the pick of them coming from Brian O'Driscoll, showing startling acceleration reminiscent of Brisbane